Harrowing Accident And Fire For Detroiters Celebrating MLK’s Historic March

DETROIT (WWJ) There were some harrowing moments over the weekend for a group from Detroit driving to the nation’s capitol for the march and rally celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C.

Charles Williams was a bus captain leading about 110 Detroiters on their journey.

Just 20 minutes from the historic Mall, there was a bus accident that injured seven passengers.

“It just shocked us that we were that close and then all of a sudden this happened,” Williams said.

But their tribulations weren’t over yet. On the way home on Sunday, the bus caught fire, dissolving into a fiery blast of black smoke and metal.

“Once we realized it was a fire, we pulled ourselves together, and got everyone off the bus and moved them away from the bus because there were constant explosions on the rear of the bus,” Williams said.